Botanical drawings

Please come a little bit closer and take a look at the flowers of Chania and their magnificent details in the scientific botanical drawings, together with a brief description.​

Please let me introduce myself: my name is Hans de Vries; after several years in cytogenetics at the Wageningen University and Research (WUR), I am now a scientific botanical illustrator at the Biosystematics Group (WUR) and the National Herbarium of The Netherlands - Wageningen branch and I want to show you many wonderful and unexpected details of both rare and common Chanian flowers, in scientific botanical illustrations. During my years as cytologist I worked a few years parttime as scientific photographer and in my free time I am an enthusiast photographer of the Cretan nature. (More about my work as scientific illustrator at www.hans-art.com).

Some of the plants that you can find in the Botanical Drawings & Descriptions include:​

and the list is growing.......You can go there by selecting one of the plants in the above list or by clicking on the buttons on the left,.......and more are added from time to time, so please come back regularly.​

​You may download my drawings for your own desktop or print them out to view. Sorry, you may NOT use them without my written permission in print or on another web page.​